As I have been looking for cheap 8x10 camera, I have realised that in fact most of older 8x10 field cameras and folding cameras does not have much movements. Practically only rise and fall + front tilt.
This is true also for old 5x7 cameras.
I use swing quite often with 4x5 cameras and I have feel that lack of swing would be even more limiting in 8x10 (and 5x7) than in 4x5 which after all will have more depth of field when lens is stopped really down.
The thing is... that the old masters did fine job with those cameras, at least my impression is that during pre-war times even Adams used cameras that didn't offer much movements. Something like Kodak 2D.
What I am partially wonder is that how did they do that? By simply choosing subjects so that movements were not essential? And by stopping all the way to the f/64 or f/128?
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